[SOLVED] Methods of Managing Capacity
1. Capacity and how could it affect operations – capacity, capacity available, capacity management, capacity planning (resource planning, rough-cut capacity planning), capacity control – capacity requirements planning (CRP) 2. Interconnected relationship between operational and supply networks – supply and demand – supply chain perspective – network links (analysis of the network through understanding the downstream aspects of the network followed by the upstream parts of the network) – supply network design (network configuration, operations locations decisions, long-term capacity management decisions) – supply network configuration (pattern, shape or arrangement of the various operations that make supply network, how much of the network should be in house and how much should be outsourced) – disintermediation – co-opetition – locations of operations (demand changes, supply changes and the objectives of the location decision) 3. The operations manager and the design of network configuration